Chapter 1. Characterization of Fuzzy Tree Searches: A Perspective -- Chapter 2. A Modified SOM Based RBFN for Rotation Invariant Clear and Occluded Fingerprint Recognition -- Chapter 3. An Unsupervised OCA based RBFN for Clear and Occluded Face Identification -- Chapter 4. Analyzing the Impact of Human Behaviour over Machine Learning -- Chapter 5. An Improved RC4 with Statistical Analysis on Cipher Texts -- Chapter 6. Gathering of Mobile Robots in Presence of Horizontal Obstacles -- Chapter 7. Design of Wireless Sensor Node to Measure Vibration and Environment Parameter for Structural Health Monitoring Application -- Chapter 8. Economic Load Dispatch considering non-smooth Cost Functions Using Predator Prey Optimization -- Chapter 9. Sparse Denoising in Speckle Reduction: A Comparative Study of Dictionaries -- Chapter 10. Compact RS(32, 28) Encoder -- Chapter 11. Graphene-silicene Composite can increase the Efficiency of Cloud Computing -- Chapter 12. Object Oriented Modeling of IDEA for E-learning Security -- Chapter 13. An Improved BAT Optimized Cluster Based Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks -- Chapter 14. A Hybrid Ant Routing Algorithm for Reliable throughput Using MANET -- Chapter 15. Development of Type 2 Fuzzy Rough Ontology Based Middleware for Context Processing in Ambient Smart Environment -- Chapter 16. Multiple Image Encryption Using Genetic Algorithm -- Chapter 17. Knowledge Base System Architecture on CBR for Detection of Cholera Disease -- Chapter 18. Efficient Adaptive Routing Algorithm for WSNs with Sink Mobility -- Chapter 19. Detection of Degree of Sickness of Affected Eye Using Fuzzy Logic & Histogram Analysis -- Chapter 20. Element Spacing Optimization of Low Side Lobe Concentric Hexagonal Antenna Arrays Using MOEA/D -- Chapter 21. QPSO for Synthesis of Scanned Linear Array Antenna for Fixed Side Lobe Level and First Null Beam Width including Wide Null Placement -- Chapter 22. Decision Feedback Equalization for MIMO Systems -- Chapter 23. Fuzzy Logic Based Handover in 3GPP LTE Network -- Chapter 24. FPGA Implementation of Novel Discrete Phase Locked Loop -- Chapter 25. Scaling Theory for the Effective Conducting Path Effect (ECPE) of Tri Material Tunnel Field Effect Transistors -- Chapter 26. Color Image Segmentation Using Cauchy Mutated PSO -- Chapter 27. Large Scale Global Optimization Using Dynamic Population Based DE -- Chapter 28. A Novel Pre-processing Approach for Human Face Recognition Invariant to Illumination -- Chapter 29. Modeling and Simulation of Jerk Driven Damper: A New Semi-active Suspension System for Vehicle -- Chapter 30. Harmonic Frequency Generation of a Ring Oscillator Using VCO -- Chapter 31. Amplifier Design Optimization in CMOS -- Chapter 32. An Application of ANFIS Based Intelligence Technique for Predicting Tool Wear in Milling -- Chapter 33. A High Performance Elliptic Curve Cryptographic Processor for FPGA Platform -- Chapter 34. Multi Focus and Multi Exposure Based Color Image Fusion for CWD -- Chapter 35. A Compact Analytical Model for 2-D Triple Material Surrounding Gate Nanowire Tunnel Field Effect Transistors -- Chapter 36. Application of Particle Swarm Optimization Technique in Thinned Hexagonal and Concentric Hexagonal Antenna Array for Side Lobe Level Reduction -- Chapter 37. Bearing only Tracking Using Sparse-grid Gauss-Hermite Filter -- Chapter 38. Novel Design and Implementation of Passive Infra-red Sensor in Steel Industry Automation -- Chapter 39. A Comparative Study of Feature Selection and Machine Learning Methods for Sentiment Classification on Movie Data Set -- Chapter 40. Enhancement of Transmission System Loadability During Contingency by Optimal Allocation of Facts Devices Using PSO -- Chapter 41. Fault Diagnosis of Broken Rotor Bars in Induction Motor Using Multi-scale Entropy and Back Propagation Neural Network -- Chapter 42. Design of a Signal Sensor for Analysing Biological Activities at Cellular Level -- Chapter 43. Fuzzy PID Control for Ball and Beam Mechanism -- Chapter 44. Framework for Smart Health: Towards Connected Data from Big Data -- Chapter 45. Capacity Analysis of ZF Receiver in Correlated MIMO Nakagami-m Channel -- Chapter 46. Neural Estimations of First Null Beam Width for Broadside and End-fire Uniform Linear Antenna Arrays -- Chapter 47. Representing the Extended H∞ Filter (EHF) as a Modified Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) for Predicting the Range of the Robustness Bound -- Chapter 48. Performance Evaluation of Forward Error Correction Schemes in Wireless Body Area Networks -- Chapter 49. Simulating Self-Recovering Electric Circuits Using Neural Networks -- Chapter 50. Dynamic Scenarios in Embedded System Verification -- Chapter 51. PSO in Concentric Circular Arrays for Side Lobe Reduction with Symmetric Relocation Boundary Condition -- Chapter 52. Ear Recognition Using Force Field Transform and Collaborative Representation Based Classification with Single Training Sample per Class -- Chapter 53. Demonstration of GPGPU Accelerated Computational Fluid Dynamics Calculations -- Chapter 54. High Performance Current mode Receiver Design for On-chip VLSI Interconnects -- Chapter 55. CMOS Amplifier Design Using Simplified gm/Id Technique -- Chapter 56. Solution of Optimal Power Flow by an Opposition-based Gravitational Search Algorithm -- Chapter 57. Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence Technology Applied in Concrete Road Design -- Chapter 58. Multi-Hop Secured Video Transmission Using Dual-Channel Dual-path Routing against Packet Copy Attack -- Chapter 59. Static Analysis: A Survey of Techniques and Tools -- Chapter 60. A LabVIEW based Data Acquisition System in a Quarter Car Test Rig to Optimise Vehicle Suspension System -- Chapter 61. A Computational Structural Biology of SoxR and DNA: A Modelling and Interactive Discern to Express the sox Operon in Pseudaminobacter Salicylatoxidans (KCT001) for Global Sulphur Oxidation -- Chapter 62. Empirical Evaluations Using Character and Word n-grams on Authorship Attribution for Telugu Text.

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